Re: [GD-General] Feedback wanted on POSH

[J C L. <cl...@ka...>]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:13:16 -0600 
Garett Bass <gt...@st...> wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "Unsized" here.  If you're
> defining char8 to be uint8, then its size is 8 bits.

Ahem.  Bytes are not required to be 8 bits, they merely usually are.

> Not being too familiar with unicode, I find this confusing.  I thought
> that "Unicode" was a multibyte format with no set number of bytes per
> character, ie. a single asian character may be represented by four
> bytes while the subsequent character is represented by two.

Correct, but there is a max width and in order to be able to handle
indexed aggregates like arrays when in non-string form they are assumed
to be of constant width.  Its in string form that they are packed.

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